Matthew Norman: Demise of our latter-day Kissinger
Lord Levy wished to be seen “as a latter-day Kissinger”, [then US Ambassador Christopher] Meyer had been warned, and if that appears a peculiar ambition for anyone without a heavy stockholding in a napalm factory, it’s worth remembering what a pin-up of global statesmanship the old monster always was to New Labour’s high society. With my own ears I have heard Peter Mandelson dwell disconsolately on how “I don’t get invited to breakfast with him when he’s in London any more. I’ve had some of the best conversations of my life with Henry.”
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For five years, British policy on the most politically complex, dangerous and incendiary part of the planet was shaped by a former record label owner answerable solely to the PM; an unelected crony who, having been created a “working peer” by Mr Blair, hasn’t spoken in the Lords once since his maiden speech in December 1997. Anyone in doubt about the need for a written constitution might care to dwell on that as Lord Levy takes his leave not with a bang, and with barely a whimper.
Posted on May 25th, 2007 at 10:27 am
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if that appears a peculiar ambition for anyone without a heavy stockholding in a napalm factory, it’s worth remembering what a pin-up of global statesmanship the old monster always was to New Labour’s high society. With my own ears I have heard Peter Mandelson dwell disconsolately on how “I don’t get invited to breakfast with him when he’s in London any more. I’ve had some of the best conversations of my life with Henry.”
Who was it who described Mandelson as a “starfucker”?